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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enforcement-of-road-traffic-debts-order-1993/article-17",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2073",
  "legislation_title": "The Enforcement of Road Traffic Debts Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enforcement-of-road-traffic-debts-order-1993",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Enforcement of specified debts",
  "text": "(1) An enforcement officer shall on demand inform the district judge of a county court or a sheriff’s officer, in writing signed by any clerk in the office of the enforcement officer, of the precise time of the delivery to him of any warrant.\n(2) An enforcement officer shall on demand show his warrant to any sheriff’s officer or to any bailiff of a county court.\n(3) Any writing purporting to be signed as mentioned in paragraph (1) and the endorsement on any such warrant shall respectively be sufficient justification to any district judge or sheriff acting on it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/600",
      "affecting_title": "The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provision) Order 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/600",
      "affecting_title": "The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provision) Order 2014"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2073/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:51:50.274441+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}